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timethief on "Getting back my drafts!"

timethief — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:57:26 +0000

re: front page error message

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By default the front page of your blog displays all posts. The 404 (page not found) error message on the front page of the blog appeared because the Admin of the blog deleted the placeholder Hello World post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/not-found/ As soon as you publish a post, not a page it will disappear. Read the differences between Pages and Posts.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

P.S. Sorry about the multiple answers. I'm multitasking from work and the phone is ringing a lot.

timethief on "Getting back my drafts!"

timethief — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:55:48 +0000

Edit post screen > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/

timethief on "Getting back my drafts!"

timethief — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:55:07 +0000

I also recommend getting familiar with support documentation found at this link http://en.support.wordpress.com
Posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/

timethief on "Getting back my drafts!"

timethief — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:53:47 +0000

I recommend using the helpful step by step tutorial Staff have linked to the bottom of your Admin page at http://learn.wordpress.com
All Draft posts are found here > Dashboard > Posts > All Posts (Drafts)
http://quarklet8.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

quarklet8 on "Getting back my drafts!"

quarklet8 — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:44:11 +0000

I don't have any idea of how to do anything SIMPLE with my blog. All I see is bells and whistles. How do I get my drafts so I may edit them, dammit?

timethief on "Save draft - everything disappears"

timethief — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:02:43 +0000

I have been there too and I'm so sorry this happened to you.

crow011 on "Save draft - everything disappears"

crow011 — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:19:56 +0000

I am absolutely livid. The same thing just happened to me.

x4ashes4ashes on "Save draft - everything disappears"

x4ashes4ashes — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:02:26 +0000

I did not create the post through: Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New, but I will do that from now on.

timethief on "Save draft - everything disappears"

timethief — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:46:48 +0000

@x4ashes4ashes
There is a long standing issue Staff are addressing in the next upgrade.

The new auto-save system arriving very soon will keep that from ever happening. Keep your eyes on http://en.blog.wordpress.com/ for the announcement.

You may be able to recover a post revision. Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

If you're not seeing the Revisions module while on the editor screen, click Screen Options (top right corner of your Admin page) http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ to activate it. Then select the post and page modules to include them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules Then you ought to be able to go here > Dashboard > All Posts > Posts and locate the post and recover it from post revisions.

If you cannot locate the post for locating and restoring a post revision, and it's not in your Trash folder http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/ then you will not be able to recover it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

Advice:
Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

Or use an offline blog editor so you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

x4ashes4ashes on "Save draft - everything disappears"

x4ashes4ashes — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:45:22 +0000

I was continually working on the draft the entire time - I never put my computer into standby or hibernation.

I did realize that before it happened both times I pasted a GIF into the draft instead of going through the uploader. I had never done that before, just tried it on a whim and saw that it worked. it's possible that that is the point at which the drafts no longer saved and everything was wiped away. Is pasting an image instead of uploading an image known to cause problems?

I'm not certain that pasting the GIF was the cause, I just realized as I was thinking about it lasts night that it was possibly related.

danielisreading on "Save draft - everything disappears"

danielisreading — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:42:00 +0000

I've had that happen to me before a few times (didn't learn from the first time). It seems to happen after I hibernate my computer, and then reawaken it. If I've had the post editor open, and then continue to work in it, and then press save, it comes up with "do you really want to do that?" or something similar. Then if you go back, everything is still gone. (A similar thing happens with Youtube videos after hibernation, you have to reload the page to continue watching).

I'm sure there's some technical reason behind it all, but I just know that to avoid this, just refresh the page, or better yet, close all wordpress tabs before hibernating, that way it won't be an issue. Of course, w you could use an offline-editor to write you posts, so you'll always have a copy on your own computer. See here for more information: http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

If this isn't relevant to what happened to you, sorry. But I know from experience that when that page comes up, I don't think there's a way to find it again. The revision wasn't saved, so it doesn't really exist. Sorry.

x4ashes4ashes on "Save draft - everything disappears"

x4ashes4ashes — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:38:45 +0000

I had been working on a post, and had been regularly saving by clicking on the "save" button while in distraction-free mode. I left distraction-free mode, and then clicked "save draft", and my entire post, except for the title, disappeared. The draft remained, but all of the content was gone. I went back to look at my revisions. The most recent couple of revisions - 3 or 4 - were all blank as well. But before that the content had saved properly. I resumed working on the post from that earlier successful saved draft, but then it happened again several hours later, exactly the same.

I made a draft without any problems a little over a month ago.

I am using Firefox as my browser. After it happened for the first time, I disabled all of my add-ons and extensions, though I didn't have any related to WordPress. I deleted my cookies and cache. This didn't make any difference, since it happened again.

I'm not sure what to do or what's wrong.

The only time I've ever had a problem before was when I made a huge post several years ago with a ton of large GIFs and HQ images. The post I'm working on right now contains quite a few images but not nearly as many as that other post, and I'm still in the middle of it, not towards the end.

Please help!

I'm not very savvy, I don't have any WordPress plug-ins and I haven't messed around with anything except simple things like changing my header and arranging my widgets.

thistimethisspace on "Drafts for other blog disappearing?"

thistimethisspace — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:24:25 +0000

Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

Advice:
Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

Or use an offline blog editor so you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

wanderluxe on "Drafts for other blog disappearing?"

wanderluxe — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:28:30 +0000

I'm an editor at another blog, and whenever I save a draft of a post for that blog it disappears! It doesn't happen with my own blog, so I'm wondering if I'm just having trouble finding it. I've looked under all posts, and drafts. Help! This is really frustrating, I've lost two long posts already.

provostcookbook on "Only text appearing in my drafts. No way of correcting/editing."

provostcookbook — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:58:08 +0000

I am unable to see my drafts..only jumbled text appears. Previews show my post but there is no way to edit. What causes this problem?

mrscarmichael on "Draft to finished post timing"

mrscarmichael — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:09:02 +0000

When I save a draft and come back to it later or the next day and publish it goes into my reader at the time I started writing not the published time. How do I get around this?

timethief on "New Post and Drafts / Incomplete Loads"

timethief — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:31:17 +0000

That's not a WordPress.com blog that you are referring to. It's a WordPress.org install. This support forum is only for blogs hosted at WordPress.com and as your question is about a self-hosted WordPress.org site you'll find help at the WordPress.org forums. http://wordpress.org/support/

amerispheresoftware on "New Post and Drafts / Incomplete Loads"

amerispheresoftware — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:39:11 +0000

After I apllied the new WordPress update I wanted to create a new post, the new post editor and and all its functions didn't load completely. I reloaded the page (post) and editor loaded completely,
saved the new post as a draft, the next day I tried to edit the draft and it wouldn't load completely. Reloaded the the page, all loaded completely. I then clicked on the add media button and nothing happens, nor does the hyperlink button work.

My site is being hosted by GoDaddy. My questions are:
What is wrong? Who is the problem? Why aren't new post and or draft's loading the way they should?

Also, when WP issue's an update and I apply that update from my dashboard, why does GoDaddy ask me to apply the same update from my GoDaddy account?

Thank you,
GMS

supportbot on "New Post and Drafts / Incomplete Loads"

supportbot — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:39:11 +0000

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zandyring on "Autosaves but then there are no drafts??"

zandyring — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:37:38 +0000

Hi there, dayisdayphotography,

Can you specify your browser and version, please? When did you write the post? What was the title?

I'm very sorry this happened to you. We will use the information you can provide and see if we can't make sure it doesn't happen again.

Cheers

timethief on "Autosaves but then there are no drafts??"

timethief — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:18:47 +0000

You may be able to recover an earlier post revision. Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

daisydaysphotography on "Autosaves but then there are no drafts??"

daisydaysphotography — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:49:02 +0000

I had written my blog - a long one - and was just starting to add a couple of photos at the bottom. It kept placing them at the top, so I was adjusting it. All of a sudden one of my images comes up in the web page, so I click back to return to my blog and it takes me to the home page.
Went onto drafts, as it autosaves every minute or so, and there are no drafts!
I'm unhappy as it took my ages to write and it's not going to be the same as when I first wrote it :o(
I looked around and a main problem is not having drafts ticked to show on screen, but it is ticked to do so....
Can anyone help?

timethief on "Help!"

timethief — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:47:25 +0000

Draft post or draft Page?
> Dashboard > Posts > All Posts
hover over the post in question and click "edit"
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/

> Dashboard > Pages > All Pages
hover over the page in question and click "edit"
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

notawoodpecker on "Help!"

notawoodpecker — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:49:22 +0000

Searching the word "drafts" brings this page up:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/dashboard/#recent-drafts

ididitallfortheglory on "Help!"

ididitallfortheglory — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:24:45 +0000

How can I see my unfinished drafts?

timethief on "Revisions to draft post not retained"

timethief — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:43:26 +0000

There's an issue with creating posts on the front page of WordPress.com and editing posts that were created there that will not be fixed until the next upgrade. Do not create posts here > http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

Instead I recommend that you ONLY create posts here > Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

If you created that posts using the "Add New" on the main page for wordpress.com here http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ then what you describe can happen and worse still the draft posts may be lost and may not be recoverable.

If you created the post in your dashboard here > Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New then you may be able to recover an earlier post revision.

Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

If you cannot locate the post for locating and restoring a post revision, and it's not in your Trash folder then you will not be able to recover it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

Advice:
1. Create posts and pages ONLY on your own blog's dashboard.

2. When you start a new post, add the title, set it to private and then publish it. When you are done with the post edit it to update it and set it back to publish.

3. The other choice is to get and use an offline blog client such as Windows Live Writer (Windows) or Ecto (Mac) and then everything is saved on your computer and when you are done with the post, you actually publish it directly from the blog client software. See here for offline blog editors so you don't have to go through this again http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc

crochetime on "Revisions to draft post not retained"

crochetime — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:31:36 +0000

I made changes to a draft post on my PC, and saved the draft various times throughout. I then exited wordpress to go to WordPress app on my iPhone in order to add a photo to the draft post that I had saved on my phone. After adding the photo into the draft via the App, I went back to my PC but all the changes I had made this morning, was lost! In fact, it had reverted back to the draft version of more than 24 hours earlier. Can you please help me get back the the changes, that I know I saved, that I made this morning?
Blog url: http://crochetime.wordpress.com/

timethief on "Drafts and default publishing times bug"

timethief — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:38:24 +0000

That's weird. Thanks for reporting it.

eternitainment on "Drafts and default publishing times bug"

eternitainment — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:48:17 +0000

I have worked on a few posts lately but delayed posting because they needed to simmer in my head and I had some other work to do.

Anyway, I have since published two of them and the last two times I have published, the 'published on' option has been set to the time I first started the new draft. Hence the posts have not shown up in the topic feeds the instant I posted them because the published on time by default was 3 or 4 days ago.

For both of these posts I copied the text out, and recreated the post just so I could have it show up properly in the topics at the actual time of publishing.

Can you fix the publish time so that by default, it is published at the time that you press the button to publish, even if you save the draft.

juliarevitt on "Saving Drafts"

juliarevitt — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:10:19 +0000

Hi Mitchell,

On my 'Add New Post' screen, the 'Save Draft' option appears in my 'Publish' section at the top left corner. Can you see that section and can you see the button?

Julia